Dear readers,
Thanks to your dedication to Lovesick Billy, the site is growing and evolving, and there are some exciting new developments just around the corner.

If you’ve bookmarked lovesickbilly.wordpress.com, it’s time to update your bookmark to the direct URL, lovesickbilly.com. If you’ve been using the direct URL, nothing changes. Likewise, email for me is now bronson@lovesickbilly.com. The look and feel is familiar, the cowboys are going to get even hotter, and improved searching helps you find all of the content more easily.

I’m unabashedly taking a cue from fellow lovesite, Tango, and their 10 Men to Run From – Not After, because the man-on-man dating landscape is just as treacherous, and filled with traps. If you like to date just to date, and screw, consider this a walk down memory lane, and congrats. You’re probably better at the delineation between tricks and boyfriends than I ever was. If you date with an eye to commitment, monogamy, and a Crate and Barrel registry, take heed. Here’s a list of whom not to do, based on my own experiences.

The Closeted: Apologies in advance, but dating a closeted man is the funny uncle to dating a married man. It even feels pretty much the same, especially around the holidays, no matter how good and kind he is, or how he tries to make it seem otherwise. (See also 2, and 3.) Come out boys, it’s 2008. Continue reading ’12 Gay Men to Run From’

Welcome Tango readers. I have had a crush on Tangomag for a long time. It’s hard to beat for straight lovers, and lovers of love, wherever you are. I was thrilled to find out today, that I’m on their radar. You go girls!
xo, Billy

We’re home from the rodeo, and I’m proud to say we’ve returned having won rodeo experience, new friends, a belt buckle for chute dogging, and a pulled abdominal muscle. I don’t know what was best about the weekend: the competition itself, hearing the announcer wish Sam happy birthday both days, or hearing him say “the Page boys are married… the family that rodeos together stays together.”

Recently, I had to chime in on a comment made to Sam’s blog, concerning Sarah Palin. The commenter was still harboring some misconceptions about Sarah Palin being “more qualified than Obama.” He said, “Tell me what he has done, and show me.”

Well, I did just that, and what I learned in the process really crystallized my wonder at how the hell she got on the ticket. Here’s the comparison:

At the age of 23, he’d already seen more of the world than Palin has seen at 44. In fact, just last month, he was a guest speaker in more foreign countries (7) than Sarah Palin has even visited (4, including Canada and Mexico). Heck, give her credit for just having stared across the Bering Strait at Russia, bringing her total to 5, and she’s still less traveled. Continue reading ‘How Sarah Palin Doesn’t Begin to Compare to Barack Obama’